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Slaughterhouses
We don't eat our horses but we do kill them so other countries can
U.S.
Texas slaughterhouses:
In 2007, the Texas plants were forced to
discontinue slaughtering horses for human
consumption. Slaughtering for zoos may
continue.
First, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals' decision affirming Texas State Law
banning sale of horse meat for human
consumption.
An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was
denied and no hearing of the Texas plants'
petition to overturn the decision is
granted. Then, in an attempt to overturn
the law from 1949 (prohibiting sale of horse
meat for human consumption), Texas bills
fail as the deadline passed in Texas
Congress without a hearing. Information and Facts about the Texas
slaughterhouses:
Slaughter records, addresses, killer buyer lists, law regarding the
establishment of the slaughterhouse,
pictures and more:
U.S. Illinois
slaughterhouse:
Easter 2002, the slaughterhouse in
Dekalb, Illinois, burnt down. Cavel
International was rebuilt
and two years later, in June of 2004,
reopened. A senate bill in Illinois was
introduced prohibiting the slaughter of horses in
the State of Illinois. The law failed and the new state-of-the-art
facility, as defined by manager Tucker,
slaughtered several hundred horses a week.
In 2007, the Illinois House finally
passed a bill banning horse slaughter which
was signed by the Governor of Illinois in
May 2007.
A judge upheld the ban on horse slaughter
as constitutional on July 5th, 2007 which
was confirmed by
a
federal appeals court in Chicago September
2007. The era
of independence began for American horses.
They closed the last
of the Belgian and French slaughter plants
remaining in the U.S. An appeal by Cavel was
denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in June
2008.
Information and Facts about the Illinois
slaughterhouse:
The problem North America's horses are
now facing is an increased export to Canada
and Mexico for horse slaughter for human
consumption.
Canadian slaughterhouses:
It has been reported that there are two
in Quebec, two in Alberta, one in British
Columbia and two in Saskatchewan, here are
the ones we have information for.
Information and Facts about the
Canadian
slaughterhouse:
> Bouvry Exports
Calgary Ltd (Fort McLeod, Alberta)
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Natural Valley Farm's Inc. (Neudorf,
Saskatchewan)
> Medallion
Meats (Falkland, British Columbia)
Richielieu (Masseuville, Quebec)
Mexican slaughterhouses:
Videos and reports of Mexican
slaughterhouses show that these use the most
cruel method of killing horses. It has been
reported that some slaughterhouses kill the
horses by repeatingly stabbing a knife in
the horse's back causing it to go down where
it can be picked up, hoisted up and have its
throat slit.
Information and Facts about the
Canadian
slaughterhouse:
> Carnicos de Jerez S.A. de CV
(Zacatecas, Mexico)
>
Empacadora de Carnes de Fresnillo S.A. de CV
(Zacatecas, Mexico) (Beltex partner)
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